I am utterly stunned. When I saw the "deleted" in Asitis' post, I assumed s/he had written it him/herself in reply to my - surely evidently ironic - "Please don't try any of that revolting "being nice" nonsense on me; can't stand the stuff!".
I imagined that the joke was that his/her reply was so rude, ie "not nice" that s/he was pretending it had been deleted by the moderators.
I certainly don't need professional help to cure my sense of humour and I have no desire to fight with anyone. I am deeply averse to psychobabble, by the way; I won't respond in kind.
I’ve been thinking about your totally-uncalled-for post for the last couple of days. Debating or arguing over something is not that difficult for me, but dealing with irrational behaviors and misplaced anger and blame is. You need professional help, not a fight.
Yes I was nice to you. If you felt that way, you were not wrong. I try to be nice to people as they do to me too. It’s better than trying to be awful. We live in a world that has never been and never will be perfect, but it can get better when we try.
I’ve never asked anyone to be banned from a forum before and I'm not going to do that now. I am, however, adding you to my ignore list. Don’t make a fool of yourself by replying to me.
Now you've got your motorised set up, you should be able to catch the live streaming on Atlantic Bird 5W. Perhaps not quite the same as the big screen, but you don't have to leave your house!
I've had a bit of a result on this!!
Having decided to go to HD I had a little browse around and found B&Q were doing HD boxes for around £60 so I reserved one online and went to pick it up.
When we arrived instead of just collecting I went to see what else was on offer only to find that they were doing a complete kit including the dish for just £5 more. The dish being larger than my existing one 65cm instead of 45Cm, I thought why not and talked my wife into it, mentioning that we would basically have a spare LNB for £5 even if we didn't use the dish. ANYWAY when we got to the checkout it turns out the complete HD kit was only £49.99!!
So I've swapped dishes and boxes and I'm now ready for the new season at the Met
Anyone else into opera and I'm guessing most people reading this thread will at least be interested - if you don't have Sky Arts then there is a whole lot of Opera available via foreign satellite channels completely free aside from the initial outlay... B&Q even have a complete non HD kit for just over £25 for everything you need to get up and running - with plenty of helpful advice in the satellite section of DS.
I hadn't realised till I read the Opera and Satellite thread that any of this was possible, nor, till recently, how much was available on the web. (But I do have Sky Arts, included in Virgin Media TV.)
Olympic Games, London, BBC theme tune, English aria... this is wonderful! -- yes I know, no chance
I hadn't realised till I read the Opera and Satellite thread that any of this was possible, nor, till recently, how much was available on the web. (But I do have Sky Arts, included in Virgin Media TV.)
No I hadn't either, the only thing I missed about Sky was the Arts channels, other than that most of what I watched was on the main free channels anyway... Totally unrelated my wife had always been after some French channels to keep up to speed with her French..
So the upshot was that I started asking questions on here, in the satellite section, and found out how easy it was to achieve...
I've taken mine one step further so that I can point at any satellite within view, which slightly complicates things, however there are plenty of far simpler options availabe...
Aside from fitting a second dish there are even ways of getting more than one satellite on an existing sky dish! The best of it is that none of these things cost that much. As I mentioned above £25 for a complete kit including the dish.
Even my fully motorised system cost less than £100 complete...
BTW, I love my wife's definition of LNB - Little (k)Nobbly Bit
PS I've only just discovered Arte is available in HD
I'd quite like Sky Movies, I suppose, but not enough to pay for them.
I'd love some French channels, but I'm not in the mood for fitting a satellite dish at the moment even if it isn't prohibited -- I live in a conservation area, it's pretty scruffy but still, very pleasant.
I've only just discovered arte -- while listening to Scholl on youtube -- I'm investigating its live web.
I hadn't realised till I read the Opera and Satellite thread that any of this was possible, nor, till recently, how much was available on the web. (But I do have Sky Arts, included in Virgin Media TV.)
Olympic Games, London, BBC theme tune, English aria... this is wonderful! -- yes I know, no chance
I'd quite like Sky Movies, I suppose, but not enough to pay for them.
We got rid of our Sky package about four years ago because we just never watched it, apart from as I say the Arts channel, TBH even the children weren't that bothered after the novelty wore off...
Returning to opera I almost heard this on the way home, no prizes for guessing they played an orchestral arrangement! So from the Merry Widow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDpt5G0HVA
We got rid of our Sky package about four years ago because we just never watched it, apart from as I say the Arts channel, TBH even the children weren't that bothered after the novelty wore off...
I got my Virgin package about three years ago, when I got Virgin broaband. I'd given up hope of decent "'phone broadband", my 'phone line isn't good enough -- BT announced this but take no responsibility, of course... -- so grabbed a cheap package deal. I'm still not ready to ditch the TV part, I like catching up on the programmes I missed in the years I didn't watch TV at all.
Excuse me for bringing up this not so pleasant matter again. I just need to explain what has happened and clear the air a bit.
yumshesquealed, you are not in my ignore list. I’ve read your latest posts. I am sorry if I’ve hurt your feeling. I misunderstood you.
When I saw your post with the words “revolting being nice nonsense” I couldn’t tell if you were being humorous or hostile. I couldn’t think of anything I had said that could provoke you to say that to me, but, to be honest, not everyone would have seen the intended humour in it right away.
To find out if you were serious or what, I wrote the deleted post. There was no offensive language or anything harsh in that post at all. I was simply asking what you meant. It was tricky for me to write that post; I didn’t want to look silly (if you were being humorous) or a pushover (if you were offending me). After I posted it, I thought about it again, and it took about four edits for me to choose to take your words as a humour, delete my question clean and mark it 'deleted' (that's what posters do when they delete a post). Then when I saw your comment mentioning quadruple delete and the links to the muppets, I felt strongly insulted. I would have never imagined those little harmless puppets could irritate me so badly! In any case, I am sorry I overanalyzed your posts and overreacted to them. I hope you feel better now.
Excuse me for bringing up this not so pleasant matter again. I just need to explain what has happened and clear the air a bit.
Yum, you are not in my ignore list. I’ve read your latest posts. I am sorry if I’ve hurt your feeling. I misunderstood you.
When I saw your post with the words “revolting being nice nonsense” I couldn’t tell if you were being humorous or hostile. I couldn’t think of anything I had said that could provoke you to say that to me, but, to be honest, not everyone would have seen the intended humour in it right away.
To find out if you were serious or what, I wrote the deleted post. There was no offensive language or anything harsh in that post at all. I was simply asking what you meant. It was tricky for me to write that post; I didn’t want to look silly (if you were being humorous) or a pushover (if you were offending me). After I posted it, I thought about it again, and it took about four edits for me to choose to take your words as a humour, delete my question clean and mark it 'deleted' (that's what posters do when they delete a post). Then when I saw your comment mentioning quadruple delete and the links to the muppets, I felt strongly insulted. I would have never imagined those little harmless puppets could irritate me so badly! In any case, I am sorry I overanalyzed your posts and overreacted to them. I hope you feel better now.
Dear asitis please think no more of it; let's start afresh. Thank you for your apology; I apologise back for anything I wrote/posted that might have upset you. I must start using the smilies.
Dear asitis please think no more of it; let's start afresh. Thank you for your apology; I apologise back for anything I wrote/posted that might have upset you. I must start using the smilies.
I got my Virgin package about three years ago, when I got Virgin broaband. I'd given up hope of decent "'phone broadband", my 'phone line isn't good enough -- BT announced this but take no responsibility, of course... -- so grabbed a cheap package deal. I'm still not ready to ditch the TV part, I like catching up on the programmes I missed in the years I didn't watch TV at all.
We're lucky that despite living in a rural area we are on the edge of a fair sized town and get a decent broadband connection through BT. We actually replaced Sky with BT vision, but we've decided not to renew that when it comes up early next year as the children have got older it gets less and less use.
On a related topic, when I installed the new HD box I transferred my remaining recordings onto the PC and I do still have Martha! Well apart from the first few minutes... all I need to do now is work out how to make a DVD from that as it's in an odd file format. I'm working on it though
On a related topic, when I installed the new HD box I transferred my remaining recordings onto the PC and I do still have Martha! Well apart from the first few minutes... all I need to do now is work out how to make a DVD from that as it's in an odd file format. I'm working on it though
Great to see José Carreras there... whenever I saw the three tenors his was always the performance I looked forward to the most and looking back over old clips it still is...
Interesting list - cannot argue with any of those listed albeit a couple of my favourites are missing; still top 5 doesn't give a lot of scope.
So pleased to see Placido listed twice - much as I loved (and love) Pavarotti it is Domingo's versatility as actor, singer and conductor that makes him unique.
Gneiss, Ruby and anyone else - are we likely to meet up on SCD9?
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I imagined that the joke was that his/her reply was so rude, ie "not nice" that s/he was pretending it had been deleted by the moderators.
I certainly don't need professional help to cure my sense of humour and I have no desire to fight with anyone. I am deeply averse to psychobabble, by the way; I won't respond in kind.
But...I still believe this may be a joke???????
PS
I don't think posters are allowed to indulge in personal attacks online.
I only wish I'd read Asitis' deleted post. Did anyone make a copy of it? Did someone report it or was it removed by a moderator?
If I am insulted on a public forum I must defend myself.
I've had a bit of a result on this!!
Having decided to go to HD I had a little browse around and found B&Q were doing HD boxes for around £60 so I reserved one online and went to pick it up.
When we arrived instead of just collecting I went to see what else was on offer only to find that they were doing a complete kit including the dish for just £5 more. The dish being larger than my existing one 65cm instead of 45Cm, I thought why not and talked my wife into it, mentioning that we would basically have a spare LNB for £5 even if we didn't use the dish. ANYWAY when we got to the checkout it turns out the complete HD kit was only £49.99!!
So I've swapped dishes and boxes and I'm now ready for the new season at the Met
Anyone else into opera and I'm guessing most people reading this thread will at least be interested - if you don't have Sky Arts then there is a whole lot of Opera available via foreign satellite channels completely free aside from the initial outlay... B&Q even have a complete non HD kit for just over £25 for everything you need to get up and running - with plenty of helpful advice in the satellite section of DS.
Olympic Games, London, BBC theme tune, English aria... this is wonderful! -- yes I know, no chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRe16N_UziY
So the upshot was that I started asking questions on here, in the satellite section, and found out how easy it was to achieve...
I've taken mine one step further so that I can point at any satellite within view, which slightly complicates things, however there are plenty of far simpler options availabe...
Aside from fitting a second dish there are even ways of getting more than one satellite on an existing sky dish! The best of it is that none of these things cost that much. As I mentioned above £25 for a complete kit including the dish.
Even my fully motorised system cost less than £100 complete...
BTW, I love my wife's definition of LNB - Little (k)Nobbly Bit
PS I've only just discovered Arte is available in HD
I'd love some French channels, but I'm not in the mood for fitting a satellite dish at the moment even if it isn't prohibited -- I live in a conservation area, it's pretty scruffy but still, very pleasant.
I've only just discovered arte -- while listening to Scholl on youtube -- I'm investigating its live web.
What a great choice in a parallel universe! This is utterly unsuitable too but very beautiful with a lovely welsh name too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SflCaOwaezs
This is beautiful, indeed.
The Giulio Cesare's on DVD, I find. I'm tempted.
Returning to opera I almost heard this on the way home, no prizes for guessing they played an orchestral arrangement! So from the Merry Widow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDpt5G0HVA
I got my Virgin package about three years ago, when I got Virgin broaband. I'd given up hope of decent "'phone broadband", my 'phone line isn't good enough -- BT announced this but take no responsibility, of course... -- so grabbed a cheap package deal. I'm still not ready to ditch the TV part, I like catching up on the programmes I missed in the years I didn't watch TV at all.
yumshesquealed, you are not in my ignore list. I’ve read your latest posts. I am sorry if I’ve hurt your feeling. I misunderstood you.
When I saw your post with the words “revolting being nice nonsense” I couldn’t tell if you were being humorous or hostile. I couldn’t think of anything I had said that could provoke you to say that to me, but, to be honest, not everyone would have seen the intended humour in it right away.
To find out if you were serious or what, I wrote the deleted post. There was no offensive language or anything harsh in that post at all. I was simply asking what you meant. It was tricky for me to write that post; I didn’t want to look silly (if you were being humorous) or a pushover (if you were offending me). After I posted it, I thought about it again, and it took about four edits for me to choose to take your words as a humour, delete my question clean and mark it 'deleted' (that's what posters do when they delete a post). Then when I saw your comment mentioning quadruple delete and the links to the muppets, I felt strongly insulted. I would have never imagined those little harmless puppets could irritate me so badly! In any case, I am sorry I overanalyzed your posts and overreacted to them. I hope you feel better now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wPefS6BWgo
Dear asitis please think no more of it; let's start afresh. Thank you for your apology; I apologise back for anything I wrote/posted that might have upset you. I must start using the smilies.
Thank you Yum. All is good then
I was following the link above to the Luigi Alva Mozart aria and I clicked on a couple of the links to the right and ended up here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFwXRa8X7Ao&feature=related
And then here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVWGutY0xbw&feature=related
On a related topic, when I installed the new HD box I transferred my remaining recordings onto the PC and I do still have Martha! Well apart from the first few minutes... all I need to do now is work out how to make a DVD from that as it's in an odd file format. I'm working on it though
Yes, never "just pop on YouTube for five minutes"... it doesn't work
Indeed I was late getting somewhere yesterday as I did just that and lost track of time!
That’s just sad how he had to stop playing the piano…
Another musician we lost to a degenerative disease is the irreplaceable Jacqueline Du Pré.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH2C3VMfwPY
Good for you!
Until your HD quality DVD is ready, you can have a peek at this fuzzy black and white. Great singing, though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cor_dja8rw
I really enjoyed that particular production so rather pleased to have a permanent copy.
You’ve now become one of the few proud owners of one of the rarest opera DVDs.
I don’t think it will fit nice and tight in the missing part, but again, until you get the right replacement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgA4h8V_34
………….
Just placed an order for “Fedora”. I’ve never seen it before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1m2HKAEmuQ
It's just great music, I could listen too it all day - in fact I might
I've never seen any of his operas, you'll have to tell us how you get on with it...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/07/artists-artist-tenors
So pleased to see Placido listed twice - much as I loved (and love) Pavarotti it is Domingo's versatility as actor, singer and conductor that makes him unique.
Gneiss, Ruby and anyone else - are we likely to meet up on SCD9?
I'm really hoping they won't have another "joke act" this year.. a joke I never manage to see the "funny" side of!